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From: "Edward F. Shea III" <eshea@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Subject: Re: Angry, very angry, at Apple Computer Corp. 
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On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Brian Arnold wrote:

> In article <deejayDGyssw.84p@netcom.com>, deejay@netcom.com (Jack Wilson) wrote:
> 
> > In article <mdaymon-2410950442490001@slip876.rmii.com> mdaymon@rmii.com
> (Maxx Daymon) says:
> > >In article <46c59m$ih0@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, vapor@wam.umd.edu wrote:
> > >> How does Compaq, Hewlett_Packard, AST, IBM, etc, etc, etc do it? Apple was
> > >
> > >Exactly. You've got a hundred different companies supplying essentially
> > >the same machine. If one is out, people go to another. It's a far
> > >different matter when you are the one and only source.
> > 
> > Yes, and that's a problem for Apple.  They are probably losing a lot of sales
> > to people who get tired of waiting and go with a PC instead.
> 
> Ahem.  Apple's sales demand and fulfillment growth have outstripped the
> growth of its PC competitors in the past two quarters.  Clearly people
> aren't getting tired of waiting, they're adding to the wait.
> 
> I guess the death spiral of Apple must be continuing, what with its
> revenues going from $9Bil in FY 1994 to $11Bil in FY 1995, and profits up
> significantly compared to this quarter last year.
> 
> There are now around 20 million Macs on the market, with over 1 million
> new Macs being added each quarter.  Market share percentages are
> meaningless.
> 
> God, I get tired of these discussions.  The death of Apple is as
> exaggerated as it was when people thought IBM would send the $Million
> dollar company to its grave in 1981.  Clearly it didn't happen then,
> clearly it hasn't happened with Windows95 appearing on the market.  Quite
> the opposite.  
> 
> The pundits have been, and continue to be, full of shit.
> 
> [As to why this thread is on comp.lang.dylan, I'll never know...]
> 
> - Brian
> 
> -- 
> Brian Arnold
> Director of Software Development
> Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.
> http://www.lumina.com/lumina/
> 
> 
But the stock price is at or near a 52 week low.  
Ed Shea
eshea@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

